A Balanced Approach to Exodus International and Alan Chambers

By Byron Harvey / June 23, 2013 /

Greg Strand does an exceptional job of balancing faithful Biblical insight, compassion, and the right sense of nuance in addressing the issue of Exodus International: Exodus International Shuts Down Little need be added to Greg’s insightful words.

Faith and Politics: A Beginning Salvo

By Byron Harvey / November 28, 2012 /

I have been challenged by a friend to be a bit clearer in the linkage between my faith and what may be called, for lack of a better term, my political convictions. Whether or not my friend’s criticisms are all valid, it remains a productive line of thinking for me to sketch out the basics…

The Moral Question: "Sez Who?"

By Byron Harvey / November 1, 2012 /

The late Christopher Hitchens, a brilliant man and wordsmith par excellence, was nonetheless a militant atheist–but not at his logical best when engaging the subject, imbued with an acerbic tongue and flaming rhetoric, but at some points not with altogether cogent reasoning. He used to love to offer a challenge to theists, a challenge that…

Anybody want my Brian McLaren Books?

By Byron Harvey / October 1, 2012 /

Brian McLaren wrote a number of books from an “emerging church” perspective, a perspective with which I was briefly intrigued until I learned that many in the movement were not content to merely reconsider ministry approaches, but were willing to put up for grabs theological orthodoxy. Thanks, but no thanks. At any rate, Brian McLaren…